Is it just me or is it really hard to read and interpret code?

Read more code. Suffering is progress.

>>59412487
Just work at a company where they maintain old Perl/PHP/C spaghetti code. You'll either be dead or a code reading god at the end.

>tfw smart but my brain registers have a limited storage liftetime

I know that feel. Colleagues can trace an execution line with their mind, thinking about all the objects (OOP) and such. I just get lost midway and have to draw everything on paper.

Its just you.

>>59412487
Depends on the kind of code. perl is infamous for making it easy to write once, read never. enterprise java can easily be unreadable without IDE support due to the logic being spread over many layers of indirections.